Improvement in combined seed-sower and harrow



\ A. HAL'LAM.

Combined Seed Sower and Harrow. I No. 85.443. 7 Patented Dec. '29,186.8.

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AB'SALOM HALLAM, OF MONMOUT H, I LL INOI S.

Letters Patent No. 85,443, dated December 29, 1868.

IIVIPROVEMENT IN COMBINED SEED-SOWER AND HARROW.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ABSALOM-HALLAM, of Mon- Ymouth, in the county of Warren, and State of Illinois,

have invented a new and improved Combined Seed- Sower, Harrow, Marker,and Cultivator; and I do hereby declarev the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, and which will enable others skilled in the art to make and usethe machine, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, makingpart of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view ofmy invention; Figure 2, a longitudinal sectional view of the hopper; and

Figure 3, a 'view of the slide in the bottom of the hopper.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The nature of my invention relates to a simple machine which may beeasily converted into either a seedsower, a barrow, a marker ofcorn-ground, or a cultivator; and

The invention consists in the peculiar arrangement and construction ofthe different parts, to eflect all the above purposes, in one simplemachine.

Letter A, in 'the drawings, represents the axle, and

. E is the draught-pole.

Letters B B represent pieces framed on to and across the axle A.

Letters V V represent pieces framed on to and across the pieces B B.

' LettersMMrepresent pieces framed'on to and across pieces V V.

Lettei-Frepresents a seat, supported on the pieces M.

Letters L L represent a clasp on the seat-support, by means of which theseat maybe slid forward or back, on the pieces M, for the purpose ofbalancing the machine. v 7

Letter H represents an ordina V-shaped barrow, attached to thedraught-pole by the chain G.

Letters 9 g represent chains or cords attached to the harrow-frame, and,passing ,over the pulleys X, are at tached to the axle at y y. Byplacing his feet on these cords, the driver may raise the barrows atpleasure.

Letter f is a lever pivoted on the axle A, and hinged to the'front endof barrow H. By means of lever f the driver may give lateral motion tothe barrow H.

Letters 9 g 9 represent a series of holes for adjusting the lever fvertically.

Letter-O, fig. 2, is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of thehopper.

Letter 6, fig. 2, is a false bottom, a little distance above theordinary bottom.

Letters '1: c, fig. 2, represent a series of holes through the false andthe true bottom, which holes exactly correspond in distance and size.

' Letter W represents a slide, a top view of which is the smaller-sizedseries of holes may be brought to cor-" respond with the holes 'v 'v',and it may be used for sowing smaller-sized grain. v

The ends of the slide W are shaped as shown at fig. B, and extend beyondthe hopper, nearly to the wheel P. v

Letters B R R, fig. 1, represent a series of step-like elevations on thewheel'P. These steps are made, by rotating the wheel P in moving themachine, to press the slide into the hopper O and open the holes for thegrain to pass through, and as soon as the point of the slide has passedthe high part of the :step, the spring T will throw it back again, andreclose the hole.

Letter N, fig. 1, represents a catch attached to rear part of frame A B,and the point operating in the steps R R B. This catch N will engage oneof the steps R, in backing or turning .the machine, and prevent thesteps from catching against the slide W. p

The machine, as described in full,.is ready rigged as a seed-sower. Bytaking 0& the hopper C, it can be used for l1arrowing alone; by takingoff the harrow also, and projecting the lever f down to-the surface ofthe ground, it may beused as a marker for three rows at a time; and byleaving on the barrow, and knocking out the front tooth, it may be usedto run through corn' the first time, to smooth the ground, 860., as acultivator.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure byLe'tters Patent, is

The frame A, B, c, and M, of the seat F, barrow H and lover f, cords g gand chain-G, and pulley X,'when constructed and arranged in the mannerdescribed, and

forthe purpose set forth.

A. HALLAM.

Witnesses: I

W. B. RICHARDS, J. M. MARTIN.

